Cable Visions : : Television Beyond Broadcasting /

Cable Visions : : Television Beyond Broadcasting / / ed. by Cynthia Chris, Anthony Freitas, Sarah Banet-Weiser.

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Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24–hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Acham, Christine,
Banet-Weiser, Sarah,
Bar, François,
Chris, Cynthia,
Freitas, Anthony,
Ketchum, Cheri,
Lotz, Amanda D.,
Martínez, Katynka Z.,
McMurria, John,
Miller, Toby,
Mullen, Megan,
Parks, Lisa,
Polan, Dana,
Seiter, Ellen,
Sender, Katherine,
Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.,
Taplin, Jonathan,
HerausgeberIn:
Banet-Weiser, Sarah,
Chris, Cynthia,
Freitas, Anthony,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Institutions and Audiences
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Moms ’n’ Pops of CATV
  • 2. A Taste of Class: Pay-TV and the Commodification of Television in Postwar America
  • 3. Cable’s Digital Future
  • 4. If It’s Not TV,What Is It? The Case of U.S. Subscription Television
  • 5. Where the Cable Ends: Television beyond Fringe Areas
  • Part II. Channels
  • Introduction
  • 6. Discovery’s Wild Discovery: The Growth and Globalization of TV’s Animal Genres
  • 7. Tunnel Vision and Food: A Political-Economic Analysis of Food Network
  • 8. Target Market Black: BET and the Branding of African America
  • 9. Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex
  • 10. Gay Programming, Gay Publics: Public and Private Tensions in Lesbian and Gay Cable Channels
  • 11. The Nickelodeon Brand: Buying and Selling the Audience
  • Part III. Cable Programs: The Platinum Age of Television?
  • Introduction
  • 12. Cable Watching: HBO, The Sopranos, and Discourses of Distinction
  • 13. Bank Tellers and Flag Wavers: Cable News in the United States
  • 14. Dualcasting: Bravo’s Gay Programming and the Quest for Women Audiences
  • 15. “I’m Rich, Bitch!!!”: The Comedy of Chappelle’s Show
  • 16. Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment’s Global Reach: Latino Fans and Wrestlers
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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